This highly acclaimed biography from the author of Last Train to Memphis
illuminates the extraordinary life of one of the most influential blues
singers of all time, the legendary guitarist and songwriter whose music
inspired generations of musicians, from Muddy Waters to the Rolling
Stones and beyond.
The myth of Robert Johnson’s short life
has often overshadowed his music. When he died in 1938 at the age of
just twenty-seven, poisoned by the jealous husband of a woman he’d been
flirting with at a dance, Johnson had recorded only twenty-nine songs.
But those songs would endure as musical touchstones for generations of
blues performers. With fresh insights and new information gleaned since
its original publication, this brief biographical exploration
brilliantly examines both the myth and the music.
Much in the
manner of his masterful biographies of Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and
Sam Cooke, Peter Guralnick here gives readers an insightful,
thought-provoking, and deeply felt picture, removing much of the
obscurity that once surrounded Johnson without forfeiting any of the
mystery. “I finished the book," declared the New York Times Book Review, "feeling that, if only for a brief moment, Robert Johnson had stepped out of the mists.”
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